Agreed. Mosquitoes are important pollinators and necessary members of our food chain, we would be hurting without their help. Only reproducing females require a blood meal, further complicating the issue.

To that end, check out this [0] anti-mosquito laser weapon, which they claim can be tuned to target only females based on wing beat frequencies. While I disagree with the principal, a laser mosquito defense system gets cool points from me for creativity.

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/military/laser-...

I've seen it firsthand. It's not very impressive, sadly.

Yeah, but how often does an anti-missile researcher go homicidal on mosquitoes with a laser? :) The idea was neat at least.

There is quite of bit of research activity going into making mosquitoes that act as vectors infertile, by introducing genes into populations: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v34/n1/full/nbt.3439.html

Whit the zika outbreak I thought, what if we could some how harden(genetics) the mosquito inmune system to fight off zika? (or any other undesirable virus)

Then find a way to replace the native populations with the hardened ones. (For example some kind of selective trap)

Something similar to what is currently done with livestock, which is vaccinated against many posible human patogens.

I think, experimentation with mosquitoes could be more agressive that trying to find a way to cure a human. And you would not eliminate the population which could lead to problems down the road.

Agree with that, if the day comes I will like to see the Aedes Aegypti to be on top of the list, that little bastard needs to dissapear.

The tech is almost there -

"Three U.S. labs that handle mosquitoes, two in California and one in Virginia, say they are already working toward a gene drive for Aedes aegypti" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600689/we-have-the-techno...